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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Earlie E. Thorpe Oral History Collection, #4927, Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the African American Resources Collection of North Carolina Central University.

Provenance

Received from, and held jointly with, the African American Resources Collection, North Carolina Central University, Durham, N.C., April 1998 (Acc. 98078).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• African American families--North Carolina.
• African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
• African Americans--Economic conditions.
• African Americans--Education--History--20th century.
• African Americans--North Carolina--Durham.
• African Americans--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• African Americans--Race relations--20th century.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• African Americans--Social life and customs.
• Jones, Alice Eley.
• North Carolina--Race relations.
• Oral history.
• Race relations--History--20th century.

Materials in the Earlie E. Thorpe Oral History Collection result from a class given by Alice Eley Jones at North Carolina Central University that was based on a lecture series and oral history project that Jones conducted at Stagville, N.C., under the same name.

The Earlie E. Thorpe Oral History Collection includes audiocassettes and transcripts of oral history interviews collected by students in Social Science courses taught by Alice Eley Jones at North Carolina Central University, Durham, N.C., 1990-1992. Interviewees are African Americans in North Carolina and other states. Interviews cover general life experiences and include discussions about race relations, civil rights, education, economics, social life, family life, and other topics.

Items separated include audiocassettes (C-4927/1-331).